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Spring up your home by upcycling

Thursday, 6 March 2014

It's the beginning of March and all I see around are willow catkins. Flower shops are full of them and even grocery stores have put buckets full of them near the check out counters. Usually they sell a bundle of six thick birches that are about one meter long and full of catkins for 3€ (4$). Since I wanted only few short thin birches, I cut them off from the willow in the inner courtyard of our building, Then I just took an old olive glass jar and a colored straw ribbon with a flower wire and our new spring home decoration was done :)

Materials

four thin willow birches

old glass jar (thin and high)

straw ribbon with flower wire (when you get a bouquet and it's time to dry it up or throw it away, don't forget to scavenge all the good parts like ribbons and flower wire)

Instructions

Place the willow birches into the glass jar. Peel of extra catkins that are at the bottom halves of the birches and place them into the jar.

Tie the birches together with the flower wire at the point where they come out of the jar.

To make them stand, spread them apart at the bottom.

Attach the ribbon around the glass jar using the left over flower wire.